Bitesize: Public health in the 19th century
c1830-1900 · Resource
Edexcel revision guide on Snow and the Broad Street pump, Chadwick's Sanitary Report, the cholera epidemics, Bazalgette's London sewers and the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875.
On these timelines: BBC Bitesize (revision guides), Resources: Combined
Around 1855
- Italian unification (Risorgimento) (1859)
- Great Famine of Ireland (1845)
- Indian Rebellion of 1857 (1857)
- Crimean War (1853)
- Wars of German Unification (1864)
- Taiping Rebellion (1851)
- American Civil War (1861)
- Revolutions of 1848 (1848)
- On the Origin of Species (1859)
- Pasteur develops germ theory of disease (1861)